I am jumping into the middle of a thread because I have lost several e-mails. I don't know if this will help. In the 1960 issue of Orr's Beam Antenna Handbook on page 66 are some photos of W6YMD's 11
The true test would be have the other end of the contact on the land line and test with him over maybe a 10,000 mile path or the path one is interested in Since a contact is 95 percent propogation a
Do you recall the Gotham beams? They produced full size yagis. I had a 20 meter 3 el on a 24 foot boom. I added 4 feet to the original 20 foot boom. As a kid this was my first experience with antenna
I agree. I learn more by listening than talking. That is why it is rare for me to post a message. But we can use our abilities and imaginations to create or make additions and modifications to improv
I do not know how I got into this. I guess I am not making myself clear. All I am saying is that a good operator at 3DA0 and 4S7 (12,000 miles) can hear my 50 watts and shunt fed tower with radials o
I agree with you. I was thinking of a hands on method of testing the original question. How would a vertical with one radial perform. My idea was to extablish contact (propagation) with a distant poi
What about an end fed Zepp? Fed with open wire. I have read that it thinks there is an immaginary 1/4 wave section where the feeder is terminate at a dead or insulator point. I know this is a high im
Good point. I once saw a diagram of a J or zepp that was bent 90 degrees at the junction of the quarter wave and the half wave. He was using it as a vertical. ________________________________________
I agree with you. It looks like to me that a half square could be thought of as 2 verticals each with one radial and the 2 radials attached or bonded together at their ends. Thus 2 verticals spaced a